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Refrigeration Research Seeks to Ditch Toxic, Polluting Gases
So-called plastic crystals could open new avenues in the quest to make refrigerators with only solid components. Refrigeration has been around for about 100 years, but…
Banks consider doctors up for grabs after MD Financial Management sale
The sale of MD Financial Management to Scotiabank last year has touched off a competition among Canada’s major banks to attract physician customers, with several launching…
Hatchery Fish Are Less Successful at Reproducing in the Wild
Genetic experiments show hatchery escapees that breed with wild fish have fewer offspring. Every spring, hatcheries in Alaska release more than a billion year-old pink and…
How one Canadian scientist is tapping into the knowledge of Indigenous communities
Jean Polfus found her research was strengthened by bringing more voices to the table. Jean Polfus, a postdoctoral fellow at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada, studies…
Why are Canada’s scientists getting political?
Erratic funding for basic research, coupled with concerns that science has fallen down the priority list for politicians, has contributed to a shift in researchers’ attitudes…
Opioid prescriptions down but some patients fear doctors now too strict
To help bring the opioid epidemic under control, health care regulators have been issuing stricter guidelines and rules on how and when opioids should be prescribed,…